sampler vs miscellany

sampler and miscellany both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sampler	Yes	No	No	No
miscellany	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, miscellany is a hypernym of sampler; that is, miscellany is a word with a broader meaning than sampler:

sampler (noun)	miscellany (noun)
a piece of embroidery demonstrating skill with various stitches	an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.
an observation station that is set up to make sample observations of something	a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
an assortment of various samples
someone who samples food or drink for its quality